Sunday, November 30, 2014

Three layers

Three layers from Sonorous Figures

(poverty, vibrations and the clown)
1) Poverty (his conditions)



2) Vibrations (his heart)


3) Clown (his cover)


steps & urinals

From 2008

I can’t really explain it any better: all I want is to make dances that have no steps.

Their presence makes me aware of a creator.  I don't want to be thinking about who made it - starring at a choreographer on stage under the spot-light flapping their arms hollering 'look at me! no me! look at me!! aren't i clever?!?"  I don't want to see choreography.


I was having dinner last night with an internationally recognized choreographer who above all else wanted to FEEL closeness with the performers, rather than thinking about the craft of step-smithing.


Now, 2014

For some reason I think of Duchamp's Fountain, 1917. 

"Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object." The Blind Man, Vol. 2, 1917, p. 5

Duchamp